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Ice Berg

If you do your best Sir Alex will be your best pal. If you slide he wont speak to you Despite his arrival being greeted with scepticism, the Norwegian veteran has been a cool head in the Rangers defence

After delaying his retirement last summer, Henning Berg rejected a number of offers of what he considered to be semi-retirement. Clubs in countries like Denmark and Austria declared their interest, but he wasn’t interested in them. To Berg these were places where nobody would have much cared what he did. Because it still mattered to him how he performed, he deliberately chose somewhere complacency would never be tolerated. Somewhere if he failed he would be told about it. Berg never wanted to take the easy way out of football, so he came to Rangers.

Last Tuesday, Berg was among those Ibrox players jeered off the field for a home defeat to Panathinaikos in the Champions League which removed even the consolation of a Uefa Cup place. For someone with a Champions League winners’ medal gained at Manchester United, it was a miserable last experience of European football, but the emotional